How can I design a function that will track the previous page a user has viewed. It will be should be designed to be called on each page.

I will be using a cookies for sure and also they should expire at the end of the visit.

How to achieve that ? I am new to JavaScript :(

How can I design a function that will track the previous page a user has viewed. It will be should be designed to be called on each page.

I will be using a cookies for sure and also they should expire at the end of the visit.

How to achieve that ? I am new to JavaScript :(

• javascript
• cookies
• browser
• back-button

• Not possible unless it is on the same domain. document.referrer may hold the previous page but also may not. You can set a cookie, but the user may e from a different page in the same session. Can you explain what you need to do rather than how you think you may need to do it? – mplungjan Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 9:15
• previous page of a particular website or last viewed page from his history??? – Sibu Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 9:21
• 1 Yes previous page of a particular website ... – Anuj Kulkarni Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 9:35
• 1 possible duplicate of How do you get the previous url in Javascript? – jwueller Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 14:34

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If you can explain why you need it, we may find a better solution.

You can use histroy.back() function, i think this would help you.

http://www.w3schools./jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_his_back

Document referrer will do this, you can then choose to do what ever you want with this url.

document.referrer